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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this Role\nWe are seeking an Automated QA Engineer to join our Software & Product Infrastructure team in Bucharest. You will help ensure that products and enterprise services delivered to Vodafone customers meet established business and quality requirements.\nThis is a hands-on role combining manual testing and test automation. You will manually test new features before automating them and validate functionality against user stories and acceptance criteria before releases, particularly where infrastructure, security or test-data constraints limit automation.\nWorking closely with the software development team, you will contribute to verification processes, identify defects early in the SDLC and build automated testing solutions covering both UI and API testing.\nWhat you’ll do\nPerform hands-on manual testing of new features before automating them and validate functionality against user stories and acceptance criteria before releases.\nIdentify software vulnerabilities and quality issues through rigorous testing.\nDesign test approaches, test cases and procedures to validate software products.\nReview software defects, identify affected areas and communicate findings clearly.\nWrite and maintain automation code to improve the efficiency and coverage of software testing.\nDevelop and execute automated UI tests to support a consistent user experience across relevant devices and platforms.\nDevelop automated tests for API endpoints, validating reliability, security and performance under different conditions.\nDevelop use cases, functional specifications and UX test cases, applying object-oriented analysis where appropriate.\nTroubleshoot software issues and contribute to procedures that prepare software systems for release.\nProduce quality testing reports and supporting documentation.\nCollaborate with design and development teams to identify and resolve application weaknesses.\nReview user stories and functional requirements to establish appropriate testing coverage.\nCreate and configure test environments where test cases and scenarios can be executed.\nContribute to the creation, implementation and management of QA processes, tools and supporting technologies.\nWho you are\nYou have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.\nYou have at least 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance.\nYou are comfortable performing hands-on manual testing as a core part of your role alongside test automation.\nYou have strong programming and automation coding skills in JavaScript, preferably, or Java.\nYou have hands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright, which is essential for this role.\nYou have experience working with Cucumber and Postman.\nYou have a sound understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).\nYou have experience working within Agile software development environments.\nYou understand design quality standards and can apply them during testing.\nYou bring analytical and problem-solving skills to investigating defects and software quality issues.\nYou understand user experience considerations relating to data-quality issues.\nNot a perfect fit?\nConcerned you may not meet every requirement? 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You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.\nWhat's in it for you\nHybrid way of working\nMedical and dental services\nLife and hospitalization insurance\nDedicated employee phone subscription\nTake control of your benefits and choose any of the below options: MEAL TICKETS/ PRIVATE PENSION/ VACATION VOUCHERS/ CULTURAL VOUCHERS within the budget.\nSpecial discounts for gyms and retailers\nAnnual Company Bonus\nLoyalty Programme\nOngoing Education - we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills\nYou get to work with tried and trusted web-technology\nGetting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company\nWe let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.\nSpecial Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave\nWhat skills you will learn\nThrough the responsibilities described for this role, you will have opportunities to further develop:\nAdvanced UI and API test automation techniques.\nPractical automation development using JavaScript or Java.\nHands-on expertise with Cypress or Playwright, alongside Cucumber and Postman.\nEnd-to-end quality assurance across manual testing, automation and release validation.\nTest-environment configuration and management.\nDefect analysis, test reporting and quality-gate practices.\nCross-functional collaboration with software development and design teams.\nQuality assurance practices across the wider SDLC and Agile software delivery lifecycle.\nVOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment\nVodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. 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